average voting power and block votes

[Richard Moore]

DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/21/01 5:20:46 PM, rmoore4 at home.com wrote:
> 
> <<Any ideas on what a good nonpartisan nomination procedure might be? >>
> 
> ---
> D- Nonpartisan nominating petitions signed by electors (voters) have been 
> around a very long time -- as used in a zillion local governments in the 
> U.S.A.

I have a hard time imagining that on a national scale. How many

competing petition drives might there be prior to a given election?

Besides, it takes a good bit of organization to gather 
signatures on such a scale and over such a wide geographical 
area, so in the end the most-organized  candidates -- those 
with some kind of political machine backing them up -- will 
get nominated. So we're back where we started.